Improvement in oil-can nozzles



`UNITED STATES PATEET fr-TICE.

GEORGE H. PERKINS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOSEPH LE COMTE, OF NEW YORK CITY, AND ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN OIL-CAN NOZZLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,164, dated December 14, 1875; application filed January 21, 1875.

CASE R.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. PERKINS, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Nozzles for Oil-Cans, ot' which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to so construct the nozzle of an oil-can that rit may be closed either by a screw-cap, or by a cork, or other equivalent stopper, in the usual manner; and this object I attain in the manner VI will now proceed to describe, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l illustrates in section an ordinary form of oilcan nozzle; Fig. 2, the improved nozzle, with the ordinary screw-cap; Fig. 3, the improved mouth fitted with a cork, and Fig. 4 a view of a plain taper nozzle.

A represents part of the top of an ordinary can for containing refined petroleum or other liquids, and to the edge of theopening in this top is soldered a thin plate, B, ot1 the metal known as Taggars tin, and to this plate is soldered the lower edge of the nozzle D, as described in my patent of December 23,1873. This nozzle is made in the form ot' au inverted frustum of a cone, on the upper enlarged and offset portion ot' which is a screw-thread, a, for receiving the screw-cap E, to the interior of which is fitted a disk, b, of cork or other suitable material, the latter bearing on the upper edge f ot' the mouth, which is turned inward, as shown.

same, as shown in Fig. 3, with the same facility as to an ordinary taper nozzle, such as shown in Fig. 4. This cannot be done with the nozzle oi the shape shown in Fig. 1, the

outwardly-flaring lower end of the month forl bidding the perfect fitting thereto of a cork, bung, or other equivalent stopper, whereas the upper threaded portion oi' my improved nozzle is ott'set to such an extent that it cannot interfere with the cork.

I claim as my invention- The within-described nozzle for cans, the lower portion of which is made in the form ot' an inverted frustum of a cone, while the upper straight portion is offset and threaded, all as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed lnyname to this specication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HUBERT HowsoN, HARRY SMITH. 

